A FRESHMAN STUDENT fills up her water
bottle at one of the new bottle-filling fountains in
the TSC. ANI MIRZAKHANYAN photo

Week of Welcome calendar
loaded with activities to kick off
the year.
Page 4

BY ROB JEPSON
news editor
A new student initiative has left an early
mark on campus, adding new water bottlefilling units to drinking fountains in the
Taggart Student Center and the MerrillCazier Library.
As of June, these new units make it possible for students to drink from one faucet
and fill up their water bottles from another.
Diversity vice president Brooke Evans led
the initiative. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The goal is to promote the
use of our quality local tap water and refillable water bottles, thus reducing the waste
of both plastic bottles as well as the fossil
fuels that it takes to transport them,â&#x20AC;? she
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most bottled water is just tap water
bottled then sent across the U.S. to consumers who then pay for tap water.â&#x20AC;?
The initiative is part of Evansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; service
learning capstone.
For funding for the project, Evans went
to assistant vice president for Student
Services Eric Olsen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(He) was extremely
responsive and jumped right on board when
I told him my idea,â&#x20AC;? Evans said.
Though Evans proposed the idea and saw
it through to completion, she said she did

not have an idea of how much the project
had cost.
A Statesman straw poll shows that so far
the new fountains seem to be getting only
positive responses.
Skyler Saunders, a transfer student from
Utah Valley University majoring in biology
said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like it. Because you know when you
fill it up (from the spout) you get that weird
angle. You know, and it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fill up all
the way.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to prop up my
knee while holding my book to get my
water bottle filled,â&#x20AC;? said Ryan Beeter, a
junior majoring in nutrition.
Paul Perry, an incoming freshman studying aerospace engineering, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just
really convenient. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to worry
about it.â&#x20AC;?
The new fountains also keep track of
how many times the bottle-filling function has been used. The unit with the most
recorded water bottle fills is on the first
floor of the TSC, which has been used more
than 5,500 times.
The next step, Evans said, is to get the
support of the various deans and spread the

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Construction updates for student uptake
The presently-abandoned
Art Barn is the future home
of the USU Museum of
Anthropology. It has previously housed horses, an art
museum, labs and offices.

Sports

The new building will house RCDE offices and state-of-theart distance education classrooms. USU will be able to better fulfill its mission to serve the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diverse populations
and communities with this new building, expected to be
completed summer 2012.

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer undefeated,
starting the year off better than
ever.
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Construction on the new Ag
building passed the halfway mark
in May. Wiring, elevators and
other mechanical features are in
progress. The building completion is set for January

A 30-foot thermal energy
tank is being put in the
ground on the HPER Field. It
will hold two million gallons
of water that will be used to
cool buildings all over campus.
The project should be completed by December.

Opinion
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Americans fought for years to
ultimately attain the freedom of
speech, and what a waste it would
be if we did not take advantage of
it.â&#x20AC;?
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The graduating class of 2011 donated more thatn $5,000 to
revamp the area around the iconic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aâ&#x20AC;? by Old Main. It now
sits on a concrete pad, which will stop it from sinking into the
soft dirt near the Quad. Five feet of paver bricks surround
the area to avoid it becoming muddy.

To allow easier access to the Ag
building, Champ Drive was reconstructed. The project wrapped up
17 days earlier than expected and
has created a better area for passenger pickup and drop-off.

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MEGAN ALLEN

Outdoor Rec. pays to get more business
BY LIS STEWART
staff writer
Aggies who want to try
outdoor activities will have
an added incentive to do so
this semester with a $20 credit
good for rentals and activities
from the Outdoor Recreation
Program, Brian Shirley, ORP
coordinator, said.
Equipment rentals are the
most successful thing the ORP
offers, Shirley said. The program, which also hosts classes
and recreational trips, has seen
periods of highs and lows.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to get
people to realize whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s here,â&#x20AC;?
Shirley said, regarding the credit.
During the summer the ORP
shop averaged about 30 customers per day, Kailey Burch, a student employee at the shop, said.
With the credit, those from
the ORP hope to bring in more
than the usual number of peo-

ple in the fall and spring.
Most rentals at the ORP cost
$20 or less, and a one-day snowboard package for students is
$22, meaning they would only
have to pay $2 after the discount.
Still, giving students a free
$20 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; essentially a coupon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to
use at the ORP is somewhat of
a gamble. Shirley said although
a credit will be added to all feepaying student accounts this
fall and next spring semester, it
may not happen again, or may
only be available to first year
students in the future.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the credit is extremely
popular weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to entertain
how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll work out,â&#x20AC;? Shirley said.
For this year, ORP staff will
be working hard to ensure students know the program exists
and what they can do there,
since their fees already pay for
THE OUTDOOR RECREATION PROGRAM sponsors outdoor
it.
activities and trips for USU students. It also supplies outdoor gear and book
See OUTDOOR, Page 2
rentals at a low cost. Statesman file photo

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Monday, Aug. 29, 2011`

CampusNews

Journalist shares Katrina experience with new freshmen
BY MEGAN ALLEN
assistant news editor
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dear America, I suppose we should
introduce ourselves: we are South
Louisiana. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a fiercely proud and
independent people, and we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cotton
much to outside interference, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not
ashamed to accept help when we need it.
And right now, we need it.â&#x20AC;?
While Chris Rose was stuck in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he penned a
letter to America. He included it as part
of the introduction to his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;1 Dead In
Attic: After Katrina.â&#x20AC;?
Just two days before the sixth anniversary of Katrina, 2,000 incoming USU freshmen gathered in the Kent Concert Hall to
listen to Rose, a Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist, share his experiences and the
lessons he learned.
Each year a committee selects a book
to be used as the Common Literature
Experience. Students taking the
Connections class, along with anyone
throughout Cache Valley who wants to
participate, read the book and are invited
to attend the convocation at the end of
Connections Week.
This year the committee selected
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zeitoun,â&#x20AC;? the story of a Muslim family living in New Orleans at the time of the hurricane.
Abdulrahman Zeitoun ignored the
warnings to evacuate the city, but sent his
family to Baton Rouge. He stayed behind to
take care of their home and their business,

thinking it would just be a couple of days.
Among the crime and looting, during
the weeks after Katrina struck, Zeitoun
found himself in the wrong place at the
wrong time, which led to doing time in a
makeshift jail and a high-security prison.
With no official charges given to him, no
attorney and no contact with the outside
world, his family â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which by then was in
Arizona â&#x20AC;&#x201C; did not even know if he was
alive or not.
When Katrina hit, Rose worked for the
New Orleans Times-Picayune and said he
knew the chance to cover the effects of
Hurricane Katrina was once in a lifetime.
He jumped right into the battle, comparing it to a soldier who had spent 25
years in training only to get out just as a
war was starting.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do that,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These
were the kind of things weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been preparing for our whole careers.â&#x20AC;?
Being in journalism is a great place to
be in situations like these, he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was one of the lucky few who got to
get on their soapbox and rage about the
world,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got to get in the newspaper and scream. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to hold it in.â&#x20AC;?
Provost Raymond Coward called Rose
a â&#x20AC;&#x153;writer, performer and a defender,â&#x20AC;?
explaining why they asked him to come
speak.
While he was in Logan, Rose spent a lot
of time interacting with students. He took
an hour to meet with two Connections
classes to talk about writing, then ate lunch

NINE INCOMING FRESHMEN WROTE ESSAYS hoping to be selected to attend a luncheon
with author Chris Rose. They had the opportunity to eat, ask questions and discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zeitounâ&#x20AC;? as well as
Roseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book â&#x20AC;&#x153;1 Dead in Attic.â&#x20AC;? photo courtesy Kaela Jorgensen, USU Connections

CHRIS ROSE, A PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING journalist spoke to incoming freshmen and
community members about his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina. He was the 2011
Common Literature Experience convocation speaker. KYLE PETT photo

with a select group of students who had
won an essay contest to be there.
Hurricane Katrina brought the people of
New Orleans together, Rose said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You got the idea that your neighbors
actually had your back,â&#x20AC;? he said.
The weeks after the disaster taught the
people to fight and work hard.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we lost the battle, we lost our homes,
our jobs and our city,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most
important four-letter word in the English
language is home. New Orleans is my
home.â&#x20AC;?
Josh Rasmussen is a freshman who participated in Connections. After the convocation, he said he was pleased with what he
had seen and heard.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was real. He was himself. A lot of
people come up in front of people and they
put on kind of this different face,â&#x20AC;? he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I connected with him a lot more because
he was real. He seems like someone I would
like to get to know.â&#x20AC;?
Tenille Holmes, also a freshman in
Connections, said she enjoyed reading â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zeitounâ&#x20AC;? because it helped connect
Hurricane Katrina to her.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to just blow off whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going
on when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just facts,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me,
learning the personal stories of someone â&#x20AC;&#x201C;
of one of the heroes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; makes it much more
real.â&#x20AC;?
Rose spent the morning telling stories and
sharing some of the lessons he learned during the Katrina experience.

Though everything is starting to work out,
he said he went through many difficult
times that changed his life entirely. He and
his wife eventually got divorced, he became
addicted to pain killers and dealt with
depression.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the storm came, it started
knocking down the dominoes,â&#x20AC;? he said.
Rose said whenever people complain
about the â&#x20AC;&#x153;stuff â&#x20AC;? they lost in the hurricane,
he comes back with â&#x20AC;&#x153;I lost my sanity and
my marriage. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll trade you.â&#x20AC;?
Six years later, Rose realizes that only
the people of New Orleans really think
about what happened.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The anniversary is this week,â&#x20AC;? he
said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but most likely people will bring up
the fact that it would have been Michael
Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 52nd birthday.â&#x20AC;?
Things are getting better though, Rose
said. Rebuilding has been successful and
the city and its residents are getting back
to normal.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We laugh more than we cry, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
a good start,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re happier, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
funnier and still talking too loud.â&#x20AC;?
To close his letter to America, Rose
said â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pity us, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to make it.
Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re resilient. After all, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been rooting for the Saints for 35 years, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to
count for something.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; megan.allen@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Programming staff helps students participate in outdoor activities
This includes an open house showing movies from the
Banff Radical Reels Film Festival and Powderwhore
Productions and setting up a Mongolian-style yurt outside
the Taggart Student Center for a week in October.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basically (a yurt) is a big canvas hut,â&#x20AC;? Paul Reinhardt, a
student employee at the ORP shop, said.
The yurts are raised, circular structures with a wood
frame, roof, canvas walls and wooden floor that people can
rent for a weekend in the mountains during the winter. A
yurt comes complete with a wood stove, bunk beds and
kitchen, Reinhardt said. The ORP has two yurts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one in
Green Canyon and the other in Blind Hollow. Eight to 12
people can fit inside, depending on the size of the yurt.
Typically renters need to cross-country ski to reach the
yurt in winter, Reinhardt said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Green Canyon yurt is good for beginners,â&#x20AC;? he said.
The Radical Reels Film Festival will visit USU Oct. 10.
Shirley said these are short films made for adrenaline-loving types. They feature a variety of sports like skiing, rock
climbing, longboarding and swimming.
Reinhardt said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really cool. The films are really well
done and make you want to go out and do something.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go out and do somethingâ&#x20AC;? is exactly what the ORP promotes.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;First off we live in a really awesome place for (outdoor
recreation),â&#x20AC;? Reinhardt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes, some places itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
hard to get out and do stuff.â&#x20AC;?
To Burch, a sophomore majoring in human movement
science, said the fact that students get a chance to try outdoor activities is rewarding mostly for them.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m an outdoor person and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for me to step
away from school,â&#x20AC;? she said, adding that the nearby location of Logan Canyon provides a great opportunity for students to recreate.

Shirley said the ORP is also working with the HPER to
get a wilderness first responder course going soon, and a
course titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Want to Be a Guide?â&#x20AC;? is in the works. The
program currently offers activities in geocaching, river
trips, backpacking and winter activities.
The ORP will be holding an open house on Sept. 8, at 6
p.m., Shirley said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;There will be food, music â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not too formal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but people
can come in and see the shop,â&#x20AC;? Shirley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have
everything on display so people can see how they can
spend their $20.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; la.stewart@aggiemail.usu.edu

THIS YEAR THE OUTDOOR RECREATION PROGRAM IS putting $20 in every studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aggie Express account. The ORP staff
wants to help students realize the program exists and show them the outdoor opportunities available in Cache Valley and the surrounding
areas. Statesman file photo

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Monday, Aug. 29, 2011

More textbook options available in Bookstore

BY ARIANNA REES
staff writer

Students hoping to save
money and time buying textbooks this semester now have
two more options, said USU
Bookstore director David
Parkinson.
Those options are the bookstoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new online rental and
price comparison services,
which provide students with
access to lower priced textbooks.
In December 2010, along
with the bookstoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s switch to
author alphabetization to make
checkout faster, the option to
rent textbooks was introduced
to students.
Over the summer the price
comparison service was also
created and perfected to provide the students with what
they need all in one place. This
semester the bookstore plans on
heavily marketing these options
and, Parkinson said, the biggest reason for providing them
is because the bookstore must
â&#x20AC;&#x153;compete or die.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea of electronic textbooks has been out there for a
decade. What does a student
want in the end? A student
wants the best price that they
can get,â&#x20AC;? Parkinson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
given students all the tools they
need to find the right price.â&#x20AC;?
From the bookstoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homepage shoppers have access to a
list of departments and classes
by clicking on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Compareâ&#x20AC;?
link in the top, left-hand corner. From there students can
highlight the classes they will
be taking and continue on to
check and compare the average
price of their course materials
with prices pulled from search
engines on the Internet. Books
can be added to an online shopping cart and the student can
go through each providerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
checkout process right on the
bookstoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s page.
Also on the homepage is a
link that leads to the rental process. Students can rent books
for a certain number of days
from Follett Publishing, and at

the end of the semester, ship
them back. Parkinson said this
saves about as much as buying
a textbook from the bookstore
and selling it at buyback at the
end of the year.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you buy a textbook and
you come see us at buyback,
you pay about half the price of
the book. If you rent the book,
youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to pay about half
the price of the book. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
about the same, but the student
has to wait three months to get
their money back,â&#x20AC;? Parkinson
said.
Student reactions to the
bookstoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new options are
mixed.
Melissa Johnson, a senior,
said that her experience with
the bookstore has been mostly
good but at times frustrating.
Despite that, Johnson said she
tried the bookstoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s price comparison option and was happy
with it.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I actually used it for one of
my books. It was a lot cheaper,â&#x20AC;?
she said.
Johnson said she generally
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t choose to buy books
online because of the length of
time it takes for them to ship â&#x20AC;&#x201C;
a feeling that is echoed by many
students.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to be cheap, and
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to make sure that we
can buy them here,â&#x20AC;? freshman
Caleb Mairs said. Of the online
services, he added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would
definitely look into it if I had
more information about it.â&#x20AC;?
Other students were very
open to the idea of trying out
the bookstoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s services. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It
would save a trip down here,â&#x20AC;?
said freshman David Bowers.
Bowers and Mairs agreed,
the best outcome of buying
their textbooks, in whatever
form, would be to get the right
textbooks at the right price.
To provide the right price,
Parkinson said the bookstore
is taking several large risks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It
actually decreases our revenues,
of course, because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re selling
an item thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at a lower value,
and because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working with
other companies, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less
profit margin to be had. So it

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community to a national audience,â&#x20AC;?
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Official USU app
launched this week

THE USU BOOKSTORE is trying to help students spend less and get the most
out of their textbook purchases. This year students can rent books as well as compare
prices with other companies. ANI MIRZAKHANYAN photo illustration

may negatively affect our financials,
but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what the customer wants, so
we have to adjust.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;By renting,â&#x20AC;? he added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;we actually increase that risk because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
also still selling the book. Being
able to identify the quantity of how
many we should have on our shelf
gets tough.â&#x20AC;?
Parkinson said that despite the
risk, providing the customers with
what they want is the bookstoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
overall goal, and he hopes that perspectives will change because of it.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping that you

learned along the way,â&#x20AC;? Parkinson
said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;was, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wow! The bookstore is
competitive on most of those titles.
Maybe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not such a bad bookstore anymore, is it?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our end
goal. Compete or die.â&#x20AC;?
He added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The bookstore has
a reputation for high prices. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
said for a long time that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying. This website proves that we are.
We want to kill the idea that the
bookstore is overpriced. Instead we
want, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The bookstore is my friend.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ariwrees@gmail.com

Student officer working to ban water bottle sales on campus
you start restricting that on campus, whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
the end of it?â&#x20AC;?
He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would imagine that whoever is
forming that opinion is not well informed on
what water bottle sales are at the university.â&#x20AC;?
Williams said he, himself, carries a Nalgene
bottle daily, but on the days that he forgets to
bring it he feels he should have the option of
purchasing water on campus.
Ben Wilson, a senior majoring in political science said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I understand the sentiment.
However, at the end of the day I believe that
people should have the freedom to make
wrong decisions if they would like to, including something so basic as if they would like to
buy a water bottle or not.â&#x20AC;?
Laura Andersen, a junior majoring in political science and economics and the president
of the College Democrats said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
really great initiative. Plastic water bottles are
a complete waste of plastic that could be used
elsewhere. In this situation you have to look at

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there was property being sold on Craigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s List and
could belong to the university. The investigation
determined that the property no longer belongs to
USU.
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An individual was in the Premium B parking lot
on the east side of the TSC and located money in
the parking lot. The money was turned into the
booth attendant in the parking lot and was later
turned into the police. Police have placed the
money in safekeeping for 90 days until the owner
comes forward.
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the Mountain View Tower. There was an RA stuck
in the elevator that was shortly freed after arrival.
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at the Quad where they found two individuals
engaged in lewd behavior. Police issued citations
to the individuals and released them.

Briefs
Campus & Community

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initiative across the entire campus. She also
wants to hold a water bottle drive for students
who would be willing to carry water bottles if
they had one.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do hope to ban the sale of bottled water
on campusâ&#x20AC;?, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But if nothing else just
encourage the sustainable alternative by bringing your own bottle and drinking local tap
water, by making these filling stations more
accessible as well as education about bottled
water waste, etc.,â&#x20AC;? she said.
While the installation of the filling fountains has returned only positive feedback, so
far, the idea of banning water bottle sales on
campus has gotten mixed reviews.
Speech communications major Ben
Williams, who ran for president of ASUSU
executive council last year, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
own prerogative how they are going to spend
their money, what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to spend their
money on. Also, to restrict water bottle sales
on campus seems fairly communist to me. If

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an individual that was suicidal. The individual
was in the Logan Cemetery and was unresponsive. Officers located the individual and she was
transported to the Logan Regional Hospital by
Ambulance.
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found on the west side of the Center for Persons
with Disabilities building. Further investigation
found the box was being sent to another person.
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that his mother-in-law, who is from China, is in
Logan visiting and has not been seen since 12:00
p.m. While speaking with the complainant the
mother-in-law returned to the residence.
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Living Learning Community, building B. A student had burned some toast which set off the
alarm. The alarms were reset.

the greater good. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not an infringement on
rights. At the end of the day you can still make
a consumer purchase. Is consuming that bottle
of water really worth it?â&#x20AC;?
Political science major Mike Smith and a
former member of the USU debate team said,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If water bottles actually are a significant factor in environmental degradation then I would
definitely support a top-down ban on their
sales.â&#x20AC;?
Evans said she suspects USU Dining
Services might also have a problem with banning water bottle sales on campus, and that
eliminating sales might disrupt USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contract
with Coca-Cola, who supplies Dasani bottled
water on campus.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The hope is that students will get into
the habit of bringing their re-usable water
bottles,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all know that everyone
has at least one, they just need to get the habit
of always bringing it with them.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; robmjepson@gmail.com

Contact USU Police at 797-1939
for non-emergencies.
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EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911
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at the Logan City cemetery. Police had found four
individuals inside the cemetery after dark. Police
issued a verbal warning to the individuals. A
report was filed with USU Police.
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Thursday, Aug. 25
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a fire alarm. This alarm was caused by a resident
curling their hair to close to a smoke detector in
their room. The alarm was silenced and reset.
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vehicle had been revoked. It was also discovered
that the vehicle did not have insurance. The vehicle was impounded.

Compiled by Megan Allen

The first day of school has
always been a day of excitement
and bewilderment as new students
file into classes. For many not
familiar with the acronyms of Utah
State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Logan campus,
the first day of classes is spent with
a student schedule in one hand and
a campus map in the other. USU
now makes it easier for students to
find their classes and a whole lot
more with the official USU mobile
app.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We saw a need and looked
around campus for help developing an official app,â&#x20AC;? said Trent
Hunsaker, USU social media and
marketing coordinator. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were
lucky to find great innovators on
campus who could tackle such a
project.â&#x20AC;?
These innovators make up the
team at USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Interactive Design
for Instructional Applications
and Simulations (IDIAS) Institute
which was contracted to build
the app for both iOS (iPhone) and
Android smart phones.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had worked with mobile
apps specifically tailored for GPS
data,â&#x20AC;? said Brett Shelton, project
director of IDIAS, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and we were
excited to take on a fully functioning app with many features.â&#x20AC;?
The appâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s features include a
campus Google map, complete with
building, office and parking information, as well as Aggie Shuttle
locations, an Aggie Radio streaming player, USU news and sports
stories from across campus and
athletics, videos, a full calendar for
the academic year and events and
links to various helpful sites for
students, faculty, staff and visitors.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really happy with our work
and the product,â&#x20AC;? said Shelton.

Celebrate USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Young Scientists

Nine of Utah State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
younger faculty members are making news at the national level for
groundbreaking research. Whether
they are researching climate
change, how to improve education or studying wireless networks
used to cure neural injuries, this
rising crop of young faculty has
one thing in common: they are all
recipients of the National Science
Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CAREER Award.
NSF CAREER awards are given
to outstanding junior faculty who
demonstrate their research has
the potential to have an impact in
their fields. In particular, CAREER
awards support the early career
development of those who are most
likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;These CAREER awards are
among some of the most prestigious
awards granted by the National
Science Foundation,â&#x20AC;? said Raymond
T. Coward, executive vice president
and provost of USU. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a research
institution, USU is known for its
seasoned researchers who are some
of the most well-established, internationally-known experts in their
fields.This group of NSF CAREER
awardees will be the next generation of researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries.â&#x20AC;?
At USU, nine young faculty have
received CAREER awards since
January 2010.

-Compiled from staff
and media reports

Monday, Aug. 29, 2011
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Welcoming students back for a new school year
BY RHETT WILKINSON
features senior writer
With the almost endless amount
of students moving in for the first
time or returning to school after a
busy summer, the ASUSU executive council plans an entire week
of activities to bring in the new
schoolyear.
Zach Larsen, the ASUSU programming vice president, is in
charge of planning events throughout the year.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our options are pretty limitless,â&#x20AC;?
Larsen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a matter of
getting support from other clubs
and organizations and getting
together.â&#x20AC;?
Larsen and other ASUSU council members said they have indeed
received such support, including
feedback from returning students,
and are pleased with what they
have been able to coordinate for the
Week of Welcome.
The Las Vegas-themed week of
events â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which includes two concerts featuring Imagine Dragons

and Rocket Summer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; also welcomes back comedian Derek
Hughes and stays with tradition by
hosting a bingo night and a movie,
two events which Larsen said have
been major hits in past years.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult for me to say I
am most excited about one show
because the whole week is full of
cool events,â&#x20AC;? said Larsen.
Larsen said the council members involved in the planning process, including Activities director
Kellen Hansen and Public Relations
director Hannah Blackburn,
were aware of the importance of
attracting students to the events,
including the incoming freshman. For this reason the officers
helped distribute a survey in April
through Facebook, the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
website and by email to various
school clubs and organizations
asking returning students what
they would like to see in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Week of Welcome.
Larsen said that nearly 200
returning students responded,
influencing the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision

to bring back the bingo night, dedicate some hours to dishing Aggie
Ice Cream on the Taggart Student
Center patio, and to welcome the
return of a comedian like Hughes
who, Larsen said, entertained USU
students at an event a few years
ago.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted to really decide
what events would be best,â&#x20AC;?
Hansen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve now had
people to help us do that.â&#x20AC;?
New strategies applied to
Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day-on-the-Quad, an
annual Week of Welcome event,
have also provided an opportunity for more local businesses and
school organizations to take part
during the five hours of festivities,
Larsen said.
By restructuring the layout of
the vendors, which will now feature
a row of booths within the larger
circumference of booths, has made
it possible for 67 businesses and
137 clubs and organizations to have
a presence at the event, compared
to the 55 businesses and approximately 100 clubs and organizations

last year, Larsen said.
Blackburn said the challenges of
planning the week and the thrill
of witnessing studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reactions
when they see whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on tap for
the coming week are all part of an
exciting endeavor.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve loved interacting with all
the other officers, vendors and
sponsors,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really
opened my eyes to programming.
Working with the ASUSU officers
has added so much to knowing
what is involved in getting these
events and to do it in support of
(the student body).â&#x20AC;?
Blackburn said the executive
councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teamwork, the assistance
of faculty members and encouragement of the student body have all
helped this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Week of Welcome
to come together.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t emphasize how much
help Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten from everyone,â&#x20AC;?
she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not possible without a
group effort. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thank enough.â&#x20AC;?

INCOMING FRESHMEN GATHER around the Block A during Connections Week. Many events are happening during the first week of school to welcome
new and returning students back to campus. CARL R. WILSON photo

Service with a smile: Getting involved on campus
BY GENEVIEVE DRAPER
staff writer

With myriad clubs or activities to join as a new school
year starts, the Val R. Christensen Service Center, located
on the third floor of the Taggart Student Center, offers more
than 20 different programs meeting a variety of needs and
time commitments for those who want to add service to their
schedule.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have 22 different programs. We have something that
will fit your interest. Come and ask and we can help you get
started,â&#x20AC;? said Carlos Murillo, a junior majoring in global
communications. Murillo is also a program director for the
center.
This year Sheldon Browning stepped into the role of community service coordinator, who advises the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leaders.
He participated in the Service Center when he was an undergraduate.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The special thing about the Val R. Christensen Service
Center is that there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just one standout or signature program but that there are many programs all of which standout
in their own way and that are unique in their own way to
Utah State,â&#x20AC;? Browning said.
Maddie Busteed is a junior majoring in international business and marketing, and is serving this year as Service vice
president for the ASUSU executive council. Busteed said one
of the unique things about USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Service Center is, though
there is an adviser for the program, the programs are entirely
student run.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatever a studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream is, we can make it happen,â&#x20AC;?
Busteed said.
Busteed began working with the service center and various
programs as a freshman, becoming involved with committees, until finally serving as a director and now Service vice
president. She said this was a great way to get involved with
leadership.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really treasure leadership, but I think a huge part of
leadership is service. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a good leader without service,â&#x20AC;? Busteed said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and realizing the needs of others by the
chances I get serving.â&#x20AC;?
Jordan Hunt, a junior majoring in liberal arts emphasizing

in business and organizational communication, started the
Student Nutrition Access Center as a freshman. After being
acquainted with other university food pantries, he worked
with the Service Center to start SNAC.
Hunt said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;One thing that I think is imperative to know
about the Service Center and USU leadership in general:
USU more than any other school I have ever seen focuses on
student leaders. We need students to change the face of this
campus.â&#x20AC;?
The leadership opportunities are valuable, but Busteed

and Murillo said the opportunities to serve have positively
impacted her time at USU.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Volunteering in the service center really transforms
what would otherwise be an average college experience to
an extraordinary and very meaningful college experience,â&#x20AC;?
Browning said.
Hunt said his university experience has been greatly
impacted by his service.

See SERVICE, Page 8

8,):%06',6-78)27)2Service Center offers a variety of service programs for students. Depending on time commitments, the
center can line any student up with the service opportunity best suited for him or her. KYLE PETT photo

AggieLife

Monday, Aug. 29, 2011

Page 5

Bands, apple beer, and a musical experience
The evening of Saturday,
Aug. 27, I made the long journey to Providence, to hear one
of my favorite local bands play
at Pier 49 Pizza. Earlier that
day I moved back up to Logan,
driving my parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Toyota
that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have air conditioning, so I was eager to get
into an air-conditioned room,
Rex
hear some music and sip some
apple beer.
The band, Racecar Racecar! â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which is a
palindrome, by the way â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was formed a few
years ago by guitarist/vocalist Jett Fesler and
drummer Alex Haslam. Haslam left the band
to serve an LDS mission and, while he was
gone, Brandon Lee joined to play keys and

provide vocals. Fesler and Lee
have played numerous shows
over the past two years, including a particularly memorable
benefit concert last spring.
summer bassist Brandon
Rhythm This
Casper joined the band and
Haslam returned from his hiatus, filling out the band nicely.
The band was set up in a tiny
Colin
space between some tables
and booths in the restaurant,
but they made the space work. Luckily they
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to worry about crowding patrons.
Their crowd, though, was unfortunately
sparse.
They began by playing a cover of George
Harrisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here Comes the Sun,â&#x20AC;? immediate-

Staff
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GuyRacecar!â&#x20AC;?
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ly showing off Lee and Feslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to sing in
harmony. They continued to do so throughout
the night, covering everyone from Tom Petty
to Simon and Garfunkle. It is no wonder that
they can sing in harmony so well, as Fesler is a
guitar performance major and Lee is pursuing
a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in piano performance. Their

vocal abilities showed throughout the night,
but not as much as their instrumental abilities.
Lee often showcased his great skill on the
piano, improvising at will and doing so wonderfully. I found that often the piano kind of

See RACECAR, Page 8

Un Packed
Each week the Statesman will be profiling what students are
carrying around in their bags. Be on the lookout!
The maximum â&#x20AC;&#x153;safeâ&#x20AC;?
backpack weight is estimated to be between
10-15 percent of a
personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body weight.
Smaller people risk more
injury from carrying
heavy backpacks.

JanSport and The North
Face are two of the
most popular brands
for backpacks in the
United States. Both
brands are owned by VF
Coorporation.
There
are 13
page
and
group
results
when you search
the words â&#x20AC;&#x153;running
with a backpackâ&#x20AC;? on
Facebook, but there are
about 2,350 results on
YouTube.

Before modern backpacks were invented,
mountaineers would
wear backpacks with
wooden frames and
leather straps.

There are such things as
Solar Backpacks. These
backpacks contain panels, which can produce
up to four watts of power
after proper sun exposure.

Louis Vuitton sells a
menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backpack for
almost $2000. They also
have two womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backpacks that cost more
than $1600 each.

Tobias Kroekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes are slightly blood-â&#x20AC;?
shot. Surrounded by mounds of pastries,
the German man is quick with a smile as
customers eye his fried cheese cake and
razzleberry tarts. He has stayed up all
night baking, and his small stand at the
Cache Valley Gardnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market is abuzz
with activity.
Around him the environment is
intoxicating. Families and farmers alike
stroll through the square. The air is heavy
with the smell of tamales, freshly baked
artisan bread and the occasional whiff of
bacon cooking. Ears of corn sit stacked by
the hundreds, surrounded by tomatoes,
green peppers, okra and freshly caught
trout. As people mill around Pioneer
Park in Logan, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest
farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; market is in full swing.
Decked out in blue denim overalls
and carrying a wicker basket full of fresh
vegetables, Debra Smith exemplifies the
stereotypical farmer. As she sits down at
a picnic bench to rest from her shopping,
Jackie Christensen, her friend of 25 years,
sits down next to her, a homemade taco in

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hand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best party in town,â&#x20AC;? said
Smith, a veteran market goer. Both Smith
and Christensen visit the market faith-â&#x20AC;?
fully Saturday mornings when it opens
at 9 a.m. This week their basket is filled
with bunches of spinach, carrots, beets
and basil.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so wonderful. Everything is clean-â&#x20AC;?
grown and fresh,â&#x20AC;? said Smith. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the
atmosphere and the community aspect.â&#x20AC;?
On the other side of the market is
Maryann Montour with a pair of quick
hands and a shining roll of copper. Her
fingers braid together strands of the thin
pieces of metal, twisting and contorting
until a ring begins to form. Montour
credits her start in jewelery making tal-â&#x20AC;?
ent to a bad case of insomnia. Unable to
sleep, she started crafting gemstones and
copper.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m quite loyal to the market because
they gave me my start,â&#x20AC;? said Montour,
who now sells her jewelry around the
state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have customers that come back
week after week and year after year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;
In the seven years sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been crafting

jewelery, her hobby has turned into a full-â&#x20AC;?
fledged business. Her jewelery is now sold
in Bear Lake, Park City, Swalt Lake and
Ogden. Though she loves traveling, she
said she still calls Logan home.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is where my heart is,â&#x20AC;? she said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun to go to other places and meet
new people and do new things in a differ-â&#x20AC;?
ent place, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so good to be home at
our little market.â&#x20AC;?
In the front of the park, 9 year-â&#x20AC;?old
Maddy Telford lounges in a camping
chair with a plate full of paper flowers.
Unlike most of the booth renters at the
market, a majority of Telfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proceeds
wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go to her, but to the Primary
Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital in Salt Lake City.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;She feels a special connection to that
place because they saved her life,â&#x20AC;? said her
sister Isabel.
Last year she caught a case of common
chicken pox. However, she was taken to
the hospital when the illness turned into
pneumonia and then into toxic shock syn-â&#x20AC;?
drome. Eventually, she went into respira-â&#x20AC;?
tory failure, where doctors had to give her

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CPR. Wanting to give back, Maddy came
up with the idea of selling ceramic plates
and paper flowers.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;She has so many good ideas to help
others,â&#x20AC;? said Telfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, Becky.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to keep up with your kids when
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so good,â&#x20AC;?
Beyond the cuisine, vegetables and
crafts, a day at the Logan Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market
comes down to community. As Shonie
Arave walks from booth to booth, the
Hyrum native stops to catch her breath.
Beside her are her 2 year-â&#x20AC;?old son, who
dons a sun hat and a cup of apple juice,
and 9 year-â&#x20AC;?old daughter â&#x20AC;&#x201C; lemon scone in
hand.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really fun,â&#x20AC;? said Arave.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just
social. You run into a lot of people you
know.â&#x20AC;?
The Cache Valley Gardnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market
is open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m., May through October. It is located
at Pioneer Park (150 S. 200 East) in Lo-â&#x20AC;?
gan.
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; allee.evensen@aggiemail.usu.edu

AFTER A LONG DAY at the park, children find shade to escape from the heat of the day.

Racecar Racecar! has many talented group members, but some of those members steal the show

stole the show, drawing the attention away
from Feslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vocals. Admittedly, this is not
necessarily Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fault, as there were some
times that Fesler could have taken more control of the performance. They were not always
unbalanced; the interplay between the two
was quite wonderful on certain songs, showing that they had definitely rehearsed some
songs more than others.
Their cover of Tom Pettyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Free Fallinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?
showed some incredibly tasteful piano licks
between lines of the song and some great
vocals from Fesler at the end of the song.
They did change the melody of the chorus just
slightly, and though Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not quite sure that I

liked their changes, I wholeheartedly approve
of them changing things and not doing everything exactly like the original.
One of my favorite parts of their performance was some improvisation done at the
end of the cover of Elton Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rocket
Man.â&#x20AC;? After some great guitar and piano
solos and some cool bass riffs, there was a bit
of melodic imitation between the piano and
guitar that was incredibly entertaining. I heard
them play that song last spring, and although
this time they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have Lee with a crazy
vocal solo at the end, this dialogue between
the piano and guitar almost made up for it.
One thing that bothered me with the per-

formance was that while Lee and Fesler were
doing a wonderful job musically, Casper and
Haslam seemed to be lagging behind. Casper
did just fine with his bass lines but there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
much exciting stuff coming from him. Haslam
seemed to be putting out the same simple
beat the whole night. Granted he did just get
back from two years on a mission without
drums, but that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change the fact that
it got boring to hear the same beat for every
song.
Overall I truly enjoyed the show even
though it seemed that the only people
who came out to see them were me, my
buddy Steve and a couple of older women.

Unfortunately, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how local shows turn out
all too often. But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry, folks. Racecar
Racecar will be playing another concert with
other local bands at Rock Against Diabetes
on Sept. 10 in the Chase Fine Arts Center
courtyard, with a minimum donation of $5.
Racecar Racecar! will open at 11 a.m. and
bands will play until 10 p.m.
I would definitely go see this band again.

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rex Colin Mitchell is a junior, majoring in
cello performance from Vernon, Utah. If you
want him to review your bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concert, email
him at rex.colin.mitchell@aggiemail.usu.edu

Dressing up the sundress
W h a t
girl doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
love a great
sundress?
Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fun,
flirty, comfortable
and incredibly easy to
Jimena Herrero
dress either
up or down.
T h e y â&#x20AC;&#x2122;r e
available in many styles, patterns and fabrics, making it easy for any body type to
wear.
When taking all this into consideration
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to see why a great sundress is a
staple in the summer wardrobe of many
â&#x20AC;&#x153;fashionistas.â&#x20AC;? Sundresses are lightweight
and delicate, and their airy quality makes

Trend
Setter

them perfect for hot summer days but not
so much for the frigid temperatures of fall
and winter â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a dilemma Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all
faced at one time or another.
During the last few seasons the runways have been flirting with both 1940s
and 1950s silhouettes, colors and details.
This fall is no exception. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;tea dress,â&#x20AC;?
as it was dubbed by many in the fashion
industry, made an appearance at several
shows including Miu Miu, Louis Vuitton
and Azzaro.
These vintage-inspired dresses have
nipped waists, fun patterns and flirty skirts.
They have a playful, yet sophisticated, aesthetic and look great on any body type.
Think of it as a sundress with a twist. The
best part? Wearing them throughout the

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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences invites you to
participate in the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first A Light on the Hill ceremony
August 29, 2011. The twilight reception is an opportunity to
celebrate the start of the school year with Dean John C. Allen,
department heads, faculty members, and other students in the
college. Light refreshments will be provided.
All students enrolled in
the College of Humanities
and Social Sciences

WHO:

WHERE: The Amphitheatre on
Old Main Hill
WHEN:

August 29, 2011
7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

AS FALL APPROACHES, many think it is time to put away their flirty dresses for sweaters and
scarves. But paired with the right accessories, a sundress can be transformed into a perfect fall outfit.
Photo courtesy Thinkstock Photos

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Too often, I think people view college students as selfish
leeches, almost. However, through my experiences I can say
with confidence that myself and other students can make a
lasting impression on the communities we belong to.â&#x20AC;?
Murillo, who spent the first part of his life in Mexico, said
that the service here is different.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Mexico the only service you do is through the Catholic
Church, if involved with that. You come here â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all these people doing something to change the world. It is a really great
way to get acquainted with the culture here.â&#x20AC;?
Murillo said that his first encounters with picking up trash
were not positive.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going to pick up trash for someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,
but then I saw it differently. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your community, you have to
take care of it. I pick up the trash, others see, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m leading
by example.â&#x20AC;?
There are more than 20 ongoing programs under the purview of the Service Center. Each requires different levels of
commitment and involvement.
Programs such as the Special Olympics or Best Buddies are
among the most time consuming. However, Busteed said that
participation in both of these programs are highlights of her
year. For those who have less time or want to start out small
there are plenty of opportunities.
Busteed said everyone is welcome to come to the third
floor to ask questions or even just hang out. She said there is
always a service project going on to be involved in. The first
service project of the year is the annual Blood Battle the first
week of school in the TSC.
For those wanting to ask questions, Busteed said the
Service Center will have booths at Day-on-the-Quad Aug 31.
There is also a Service Center Kickoff in the TSC Auditorium
Sept 7 and 8.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Service Center has a lot of potential to grow and better serve students, we only need students who have a vision
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; something that resides in every Aggie,â&#x20AC;? Hunt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By putting that vision to work they can make a real impact to the
future of this University.â&#x20AC;?
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AggieLife

Monday, Aug. 29, 2011

Freshman settles in to college life
Day in the

Life

Taylor Young,
freshman,
mechanical
engineering

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 9:30 a.m. in Logan as
the sun seeps through Taylor
Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bedroom in an effort
to yank him out of bed. Amid
the new sense of spare time
and freedom, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at least a
blessing Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural elements have found a way to
keep him upright during his
first week as a college student.
Young, an 18-year old
Layton, Utah, native, pulls off
his covers and heads directly
to the shower â&#x20AC;&#x201C; growing up in
a military family has taught him
nothing good comes unless
youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always on the move.
Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lived everywhere, from
Georgia to England, and surprisingly heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s found much of
his life gathers routine; he has
his interests, his same personality and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably always
start off the morning singing
in the shower. This morning
Taio Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dynamiteâ&#x20AC;? is his
weapon of choice; and tomorrow, who knows?
Young scarfs down a large
bowl of Frosted Flakes and is
out the door by 11 a.m., en
route to the parking office.
No more subdivision driveways to lean on â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if you have
a vehicle on this campus
youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need a badge â&#x20AC;&#x201C; almost
like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dragnet,â&#x20AC;? on wheels,
but without the cool theme
music.
A good hour and $73 later,
Young steps out of the build-

TAYLOR YOUNG HANGS OUT with his new roommates
until early in the morning. Finding ways to be social is just one of
the adjustments freshman must make when leaving home. STEVE
SCHWARTZMAN photo

ing both impressed with the
politeness of the lady at the
counter and bewildered by
the price he paid to put his
vehicle into a white-painted
box. At first he wondered if
the lady was kidding â&#x20AC;&#x201C; some
sort of freshman prank to trick
them into thinking parking
really was that expensive. But
alas, it truly demanded that
pretty of a penny.
After taking the long route
back to his new abode in
Merrill Hall, Young parks his
car and makes the long walk
across 400 North to his apartment.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now just past noon as
he and his roommate Devin
Patterson walk into the apartment, a little aghast at one of
their comrades slurping down
Ramen noodles in nothing but
green boxer shorts. It turns
out not all college life clichĂŠs
are myths. They followed up
with some nervous giggles,
a quick lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and
it was time for the university

off to the Merrill Hall Lounge
for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mixed Drink Night.â&#x20AC;? Ellis,
blender in tow, greets them
with a laugh and begins setting Young up with some nonalcoholic frozen juice with the
best of everything â&#x20AC;&#x201C; strawberries, lemons, bananas,
etc. They sit down to enjoy a
hearty marathon of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Psych,â&#x20AC;?
but, due to technical difficulties, are sadly confined to
watching Channel 2 News.
Within minutes his buddies
Devin and Emerson Ugy
shoot him a text from across
the room: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You wanna go?â&#x20AC;?
A quick nod and wink over to
their corner, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re back
en route to the apartment.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now 11 p.m. and everything else starts to go like
a blur. Come home. Hang
out. Set up some black
lights. Throw on a little reggae music. Laugh. Hang out.
Take down the lights â&#x20AC;&#x201C; following some stern reprimanding
from the RA. Hang out. Talk
about the weather. Hang out.
Keep hanging out. Wait for
some friends to arrive.
Now midnight has passed.
Young jumps into the car with
some friends. They take a
detour to Taco Bell that turns
into a 90-minute laughterinduced romp. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re back
at his place for a nightly routine of Halo 3 and some more
hanging out to cap off the
day.
After a long journey of
cereal, parking debacles, volleyball and numerous other
adventures, he slides into his
bedroom at 2:30 a.m. to complete his nighttime routine:
take off jeans; go to bed.
Day three of college life:
complete.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;newbiesâ&#x20AC;? to do what they do
best: hang out.
Before long itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already
1:30 p.m. and Andrew Ellis,
the resident assistant, raps on
the door, spreading the message that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for a roaring
game of pickup volleyball.
And it was roaring, quite
roaring. It was 4 Â˝ hourslong roaring. In all this time
Young realizes three things: 1.
Summers in Logan are about
as beautiful as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ever seen.
2. Outdoor volleyball can
deem itself quite addicting. 3.
Judging by the consistent collision the ball makes with nearby cars, he may have dodged
a bullet with such a far away
parking pass.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 6 p.m. and only a few
hours until an activity held by
the RA. Young changes his volleyball-ridden clothes, throws
on some â&#x20AC;&#x153;smell goods,â&#x20AC;? and
thinks of something rather
productive for himself and his
roommates to do to pass the
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; steve.schwartzman@aggiT:10â&#x20AC;?
time: they hang out.
email.usu.edu
And just like that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re

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Pair dresses with accessories
fall is easier than you might think. Because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a little
more tailored than the average sundress, its easier to dress
them up and wear them with layers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; maximizing their
wear time.
Here are some ways to make your favorite sundress, or
â&#x20AC;&#x153;tea dress,â&#x20AC;? wearable through the chilly autumn months.

1. Say goodbye to bare legs and add a fun pair of colored
tights. Experiment with colors, textures and patterns to
show your personal style. Pairing a lightweight dress with
ribbed tights is a great way to stay warm and add visual
interest to an outfit. When using patterns make sure you
keep them small and simple. Pairing small pinstripes or a
polka-dot pattern is a great alternative for a dress that has
a prominent pattern.

2. Pair it with a cute cardigan. Keep in mind that if your
dress has a pattern, you should keep the cardigan simple,
and vice versa. Add a little interest with a vintage brooch
or a plain skinny belt worn at the waist in a contrasting
color.

3. A chunky sweater can also be a great alternative to a
cardigan. It will create a more relaxed look. Pair it with
some flats or even leggings. Add a long necklace to elongate your torso and avoid looking too bulky up top.

4. Extra chilly weather? Add a cropped jacket or a fitted
blazer over your cardigan or sweater. Peplum jackets
made a comeback this season and look great paired with
a flirty dress. Look for these cute 1950s-inspired jackets in
simple patterns or bold colors. Deep, gem-tone hues are
back (teals, deep purples and royal blues). Keep the jacket
simple and stick to one pattern or color. This will help keep
the outfit looking uniform, regardless of how many layers
youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wearing.

5. Pairing a dress with boots is also a great way to stay
warm. Avoid chunky heels and boots that are too heavy
duty, as this will clash with the delicateness of the dress
and make your legs look shorter. Instead try a sleek pair
of knee-high boots with few buckles and details. Think
simple.

Just because the weather is less than sunny doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
mean you have to say goodbye to your favorite dress. Get
creative and add a few layers and fun accessories, such as
scarves, hats and gloves. Not only will it extend the wearability of your dress, it will also keep you nice and toasty!
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jimena Herrero is a Liberal Arts Major minoring in
Journalism. She attended ABM in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
and majored in fashion design. Her column runs once a
month. Comments or suggestions on how she can keep
you trendy? E-mail her at jimena.h@aggiemail.usu.edu

MLK Memorial: Stuck among
the conceptual and the literal
BY PHILIP KENNICOTT
(c) 2011, The Washington Post

The new memorial to the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
turns out to be a relatively
modest affair. A stoplight
on Independence Avenue
SW announces the entrance,
where a fan-shaped entry
court leads to a 30-foot high
portal of carved stone. The
memorial faces inward,
away from the Mall, with
planted earthen berms and
trees obscuring it from many
angles.
More than 180 new cherry
trees have been added to
this four-acre wedge of land
between the Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Memorial and the
bridge that crosses the northern edge of the Tidal Basin,
keeping the space green and
assuring that the white necklace of blossoms that delights
the world will be unbroken
come spring. Except for a
wall of green granite covered
in quotations by King, and
two main statue elements
that represent a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mountain
of Despairâ&#x20AC;? and a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stone of
Hope,â&#x20AC;? the memorial is a low,
pleasant plaza that integrates
quietly into the landscape of
West Potomac Park.

Even the 30-foot tall
statue of King, an early version of which prompted the
Commission on Fine Arts to
fret over its â&#x20AC;&#x153;confrontationalâ&#x20AC;?
stance, imposing size and
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Socialist Realist style,â&#x20AC;? is
turned away from the main
entrance. King, who was
plenty confrontational in
real life, now looks off to the
West, toward where FDR sits
in his equally controversial
wheelchair. But there was no
symbolism intended in that,
according to executive architect Ed Jackson Jr.
Like too many memorials,
the Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial is stuck uncomfortably between the conceptual and literal. The concept,
originally developed by the
San Francisco-based ROMA
Design Group, focuses on the
Mountain of Despair, two
massive, roughly arch-shaped
granite bookends, and the
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stone of Hope,â&#x20AC;? which contains a statue of King, carved
by the Chinese sculptor Lei
Yixin and shipped from
Changsha, China.
The â&#x20AC;&#x153;stoneâ&#x20AC;? is meant to
look as if it has been pulled
out of the arch of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;mountain,â&#x20AC;? and is turned slightly so
that visitors first encounter a

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mountain of despair, a stone of
hope,â&#x20AC;? before they encounter
King himself.
The stone of hope turns out
to be derived from a rather
violent allegory of political
conflict and tribalism. The
line is from Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Have
a Dreamâ&#x20AC;? speech, delivered
in Washington on Aug. 28,
1963. It was apparently based
on an image from the second
book of Daniel, in which the
prophet interprets one of King
Nebuchadnezzarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dreams.
Nebuchadnezzar envisioned
not a mountain, but a massive
idol, or image, with a head of
gold, arms of silver and thighs
of brass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As you looked, a
stone was cut out by no human
hand, and it struck the image
on its feet of iron and clay, and
broke them in pieces,â&#x20AC;? says
Daniel, prophesying the downfall of the old order.
Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version makes no
reference to smiting and politics, and it was certainly not
the intention of the designers
to suggest anything controversial. Despite occasional
citations from his later, more
challenging speeches, the
memorial is focused on the
anodyne, pre-1965 King, the
man remembered as a saintly
hero of civil rights, not an
anti-war goad to the national
conscience whose calls for
social and economic justice
would be considered rank
socialism in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political
climate.
The hope-from-despair
concept is realized literally,
with a giant statue of King
embedded in the Stone of
Hope, which is grooved on
both sides to suggest that it
has been physically extracted
from the Mountain of Despair.
But it turns out to be a rather
tricky thing to base archi-

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be vastly improved simply by removing the statue. /Washington Post photo by Nikki Kahn.)

tectural design on rhetorical tropes. Especially Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
rhetoric. The master orator
was remarkably inventive in
his metaphors and eclectic in
his sources. If you read his
writing too closely, the metaphors begin to contradict and
undermine each other.
In the Dream speech, King
spoke not only of a Mountain
of Despair and Stone of Hope,
but of a desolate valley of
segregation, a solid rock of
brotherhood, the majestic
heights of â&#x20AC;&#x153;soul force,â&#x20AC;? and a
lonely island of poverty in a
vast ocean of material prosperity. Sometimes valleys are
exalted, sometimes they are
places where people â&#x20AC;&#x153;wallow
in despair.â&#x20AC;? Even the heights,
or high ground, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always a
positive image in Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rhetoric. In one of his early speeches, in Montgomery, Ala., he
spoke of being pushed from
the â&#x20AC;&#x153;glittering sunlight of lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Julyâ&#x20AC;? into the â&#x20AC;&#x153;the piercing
chill of an alpine November.â&#x20AC;?
It was very much a mobile
army of metaphors that King
deployed. To the listener, they
are pure poetry. But they were

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never meant to be pinned down
in the way that creating a $120
million memorial based on one
trope pins down an image.
The image also created
visual and design challenges
that no one figured out how to
solve. A mountain should be
big, but a memorial near the
Mall must be in scale to its surroundings - and given that the
entire plaza rests on more than
340 pilings driven through
marshy muck some 40-50
feet to bedrock, the mountain
couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get much larger even
if the relevant authorities had
approved something more
colossal. Metaphorically, it
seems as if the Stone of Hope
ought to be smaller than the
mountain from which it is
hewn, but because it contains
a statue of King, it must be big
enough to be impressive.
The result is a mishmash
that looks a bit like King is
attached to a giant door that
has been pushed out of a rather
meagre hillock. The seams
joining the 41 blocks of granite
that comprise the stone, and
the 118 blocks that make up
the two sides of the mountain
give both sculptural elements
a somewhat flimsy, cobbledtogether feel, as if they were
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intended for a roadside attraction, not a monument on the
nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most symbolically
rich ground.
You could see this coming
for years, and it was clear during the approvals process that
plenty of people on the oversight committees were feeling queasy about the design.
There were worries about
the size of the King statue,
and the rather brusque,
arms-folded stance in which
he is memorialized. Efforts
to tweak the design didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
confront the central problem:
The idea of representing King,
the stone and the mountain
literally. An imaginative landscape architect could have
translated the mountain and
stone concept into something
more abstract. But once it was
decided that there had to be
a monumental, lifelike image
of King, the concept and its
literal execution were both
doomed to failure.
The memorial could be
vastly improved simply by
removing the statue. Or by
following Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original metaphor and hewing it down to
something smaller and more
abstract.

Check it out! All the
clues, all the answers
come from from this
issue of The Statesman.
Bring it in to TSC 105
or snap a photo with
your phone and email
to statesmanoffice@
aggiemail.usu.edu.
Deadline Tuesday noon.
Those with correct
answers will be
eligible for a
drawing for a $10 restaurant gift
certificate!
Read & Play!

Aug. 29
Today is Monday, Aug.
29, 2011. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issue
of The Utah Statesman
is published especially
for Nate Wright, a junior
majoring in mechanical
and aerospace engineer-â&#x20AC;?
ing from Pleasant Grove,
Utah.

Almanac
Today in History:
In August 2005, the Gulf
Coast of the southern
United States was hit by
one of the most powerful hurricanes on record.
Hurricane Katrina
slammed into Louisiana
and Mississippi with
winds exceeding 170
miles per hour and storm
surges of up to 26 feet.

Big Blue Scholarship Fund Football
Luncheon, SLC 12 p.m.
A Light on the Hill Aug. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in
the Amphitheater on Old Main Hill
Imagine Dragons live in Concert TSC,
Patio 8-10 p.m.

Tuesday

Aug. 30
Blood Battle Lounges on the 2nd floor of
the TSC from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Special Olympics Basketball Game 12-1:30
p.m. on the TSC patio
Free walking tacos 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the
TSC Patio
Thor on the big screen on Old Main Hill
8:30-10:30 p.m.

Wednesday

Aug. 31

Blood Battle Lounges on the 2nd floor
of the TSC 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Day on the Quad 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Unveiling of the Undergraduate
Research Spotlights wall 2:45 p.m. to 3:30
p.m. Atrium of the Merrill-Cazier Library
RHA Barbeque 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Derek Hughes Stand Up Comedian and
Magician 7-10 p.m. in the TSC Ballroom

The Office of Study
Abroad has moved! Please
visit us in our new location 118 Military Science:
First floor-enter in the
door on the southside of
the building just north
of the TSC. Learn more
about semester exchanges,
short-term faculty-led programs, study in English,
or build language skills.
Study Abroad is affordable! Semester exchange
programs are based on
USU tuition costs. Â Most
scholarships and financial
aid apply.Â Save the date!
Study Abroad Fair Sept.
14 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the
TSC Sunburst/International
Lounge.Â
Contact us for more
information: Office of
Study Abroad Military
Science 118; 435-797-0601;
studyabroad@usu.edu;
www.usu.edu/studyabroad

Walk or choose to loop the
track. Walkers who create
teams or sign up individually
may do so at alz.org/utah.
Runners are invited to
participate in the 5K Run
along side the Walk. The run
fee is $20. To register as a
runner you may go directly
to the Web site at www.alz.
org/utah click on Walk to
End Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and go to
the Logan walk. The sign
up form is on our page. Or
you may contact Jenn Weiss
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You Need to Know:

A Light on the Hill
Ceremony Monday, Aug. 29
from 7:30 p.m. to 8:20 p.m.
The College of Humanities
and Social Sciences invites
you to participate in the
schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A Light on the
Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceremony Aug. 29, 2011.
The twilight reception is
an opportunity to celebrate
the start of the school year.
Light refreshments will be
Stokes Nature Center
provided. It will be held at
invites ages 12+ to A
the Amphitheater on Old
Starry Night, held 7:45Main Hill. All students
11pm on Thursday, Sept.
enrolled in the College of
1. Participants will learn
Humanities and Social
to recognize fallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major
stars and constellations, get Sciences can attend.
Cornerstone of Cache
a feel for how stars move
Valley Musical Culture: An
through the night sky,
Exhibit Monday, Aug 29 all
view the moonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s craters,
Day. A new exhibit organized
and learn to use the stars
as a compass - all with the by University Libraries at
Utah State University takes a
naked eye or binoculars.
unique look at one of Cache
Meet at the Logan Ranger
Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musical leaders who
District parking lot for
played a role in the cultural
carpool to star-watching
site. Registration required. development of Logan,
For more information, call Frances Winton Champ. A
435-755-3239 or visit www. reception for the exhibit is
Monday, Sept. 12, 4 p.m. at
logannature.org.
Merrill-Cazier Library. The
exhibit and reception are free
and open to everyone.
Contact: Kathy.schockmel@
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Wagner named preseason defensive player of the Year
BY TAVIN STUCKI
sports editor

LAV VEGAS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Utah State was
picked to finish fifth in the
Western Athletic Conference
by both media and coaches
preseason polls, released earlier this summer.
Hawaii is the early favorite
and picked to win the WAC,
followed closely by Nevada
in second and Fresno State
in third. Louisiana Tech, in
fourth, precedes Utah State,
in fifth, who is followed by
Idaho, in sixth. San Jose State,
in seventh, and New Mexico
State, in eighth, finish out the
polls.
Hawaii coach Greg
McMackin said he does not
believe a walk championship
will be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;walk.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to compete
for the WAC championship,â&#x20AC;?
McMackin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think there
are several teams that are
going to be right in the thick
of it.â&#x20AC;?
With the departure of longtime favorite Boise State to the
Mountain West Conference,
many players and coaches feel
the WAC championship is up
for grabs, including Idaho
head coach Rob Akey.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s saying it,
some of them believe it,â&#x20AC;? Akey
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ones that believe it
will have a chance.â&#x20AC;?
Bryant Moniz from Hawaii
was selected to be the WAC
offensive player of the year for
his senior season. Moniz led
the Warriors to a 10-4 season
last year and a share of the
WAC championship.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve coached at every level
and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen a guy study
as hard as Bryant Moniz,â&#x20AC;?
McMackin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at our
offices all the time â&#x20AC;&#x201C; works
hard, has got a family â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
got a great deal of respect for
him.â&#x20AC;?
Utah Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior linebacker Bobby Wagner was
named the conference
Defensive Player of the Year.
Wagner led the WAC and tied
for seventh in the FBS with
11.1 tackles per game and is a
two-time all-WAC honoree.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a heck of a player,â&#x20AC;?
said New Mexico State head
coach DeWayne Walker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I
know when we get to that
stage of the season (Wagner) is
definitely a guy weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to
See WAGNER, Page 14

Soccer off to best start ever
Flanary leads USU with
five goals on the season
BY MEREDITH KINNEY
sports senior writer

The USU womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer
team has gone undefeated
through the first four games
to start the 2011 season and
make history with a program
best 4-0 start. Checked off
on the Aggiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hit list are
Weber State, Portland State,
Colorado College and Northern
Colorado.

Coachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
show begins
Tuesday

Utah State 1, Weber State 0

BY USU ATHLETICS

Utah State head coach
Gary Andersenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s radio
show will start on Tuesday,
Aug. 30. The show,
which will air mostly on
Thursdays, runs from 6:05
to 6:45 p.m. on 610 AM
KVNU and 610kvnu.com,
as well as streamed on
utahstateaggies.com.
The Copper Mill
Restaurant and Elements
Restaurant will rotate
hosting the show, starting
with The Copper Mill. The
show gives USU fans an
opportunity to ask questions and interact with
Coach Andersen and players.
Host Al Lewis will
recap the previous week
and preview the upcoming game, taking questions from the audience
and listeners.
The Aggies are in preparation for their seasonopener on Saturday, Sept. 3
at No. 23/19 Auburn at 10
a.m. (MDT), which will be
aired on ESPN2.
USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preseason concludes with a scrimmage
on Saturday, Aug. 27 at
Noon as part of Utah
State Aggie Football
Family Fun Day, sponsored by Maceyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foods.
The event provides fans a
chance to meet USU football players and coaches,
participate in games and
activities as well as purchase and pick-up season
tickets. Activities sponsored by Maceyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foods
will begin on the South
Concourse of Romney
Stadium.
Season tickets as well as
two-game packages will be
also available for purchase
at the USU Football Family
See COACH, Page 15

7)2-360-2)&%'/)6&3&&=;%+2)6poses for a photo
at WAC Media Days this past summer. Wagner is part of the linebacker core that will anchor the Aggie defense. TAVIN STUCKI photo

7,%28)00*0%2%6=8%/)7%shot against Portland State a week ago. Flanary scored against
the Vikings and leads the team in scoring. CARL R. WILSON photo

The Aggie womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer team opened their regular
season on Friday, Aug. 19,
with a 1-0 win over Weber
State University at Rio Tinto
Stadium in Salt Lake City. This
is the third year the team has
opened their season in the
professional arena, each time
against an in-state rival, and
each time earning a win.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am really excited to come
away with a win,â&#x20AC;? said USU
head coach Heather Cairns.
In the 33rd minute, senior
forward Shantel Flanary
scored the sole goal of the
match. Keeping with tradition,
Flanary has scored all three
times at Rio Tinto, twice with
the game-winning goal.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It feels unreal, I guess,â&#x20AC;? she
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t score the goals
alone, my teammates obviously have to get assists from
somewhere. It is always a team
effort.â&#x20AC;?
Because it is so early in the
season, Cairns said the team is

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still working to find their flow
and rhythm in the game.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first couple of games it
is really hard to get your attack
clicking,â&#x20AC;? Cairns said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think
you saw that neither team had
great chances in front of the
goal.â&#x20AC;?
After Flanaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal, Weber
State pushed forward with
a continued attack, but the
Aggies held on for the win, 1-0.
Utah State 2, Portland State 1
Playing at home at Chuck
and Gloria Bell Field for the
first time this season, Utah
State came from behind to beat
Portland State 2-1 on Sunday,
Aug. 21.
Portland State scored first
in the 36th minute with a goal
from sophomore Ariel Snyder.
USU goalkeeper Molli Merrill
deflected a save away from the
net, but the 5-foot-5 forward
out of Newberg, Oregon, headed the ball back in for the score
to go up 1-0.
The Aggies struck back in
the 53rd minute when sophomore forward Mari Miyashiro
See BEST, Page 14

The Utah State volleyball team had
a tough opening to its 2011 season during the weekend at the Southern Utah
Tournament, losing two of the three
matches.
After graduating four seniors, the
defending Western Athletic Conference
champions are still looking for an identity early in the season.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a little up and down,â&#x20AC;? USU
head coach Grayson DuBose said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were some things we did really
well and, there were some things we
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do very well. We kind of knew
that going in. We lost a lot of experience from last year, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking to
try and rebuild our identity here.â&#x20AC;?
USU left Cedar City with 1-2 record
after dropping matches to University of
Pacific, host Southern Utah University
and defeating Drake University.

Pacific 3, USU 0

Senior All-American outside hitter Liz McArthur led Utah State with
nine kills while junior setter Kassi
Hargrove, who started her first-ever
match for the Aggies, finished with a
career best 23 assists and 17 digs.
In the first set, the Tigers jumped
out a 5-1 lead and never looked back en
route to a 25-13 victory. The Tigers hit
.432 and held Utah State to a .129 hitting percentage.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re offense is faster than anything Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volleyball,
and we just hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prepared for that,â&#x20AC;?
DuBose said about Pacific. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can
only simulate in practice what you are
able to do. We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to simulate
their speed and it got us a little uncomfortable.â&#x20AC;?
Utah State cut the deficit to 20-10
on a kill from freshman outside hitter
Rachel Orr assisted by Hargrove before

the offense sputtered and only managed three more points in the remainder of the set. The Tigers only held a
three point advantage over the Aggies
late in the second set, but USU did not
get any closer and dropped the set,
25-18.
The Aggies held a small lead in the
third and final set before falling 25-17.
USU 3, Drake 0

McArthur came up strong against
the Bulldogs, recording her 13th career
double-double with 13 kills and 11
assists.
Junior opposite side hitter Shay
Sorensen put the Aggies on the board
first in the opening set with a kill,
and the Aggies never gave up the lead.
McArthur notched one of her 13 kills
on a pass from Hargrove to give the
Aggies the victory.
Utah State fell behind early to Drake
in the second set but rallied and out-

scored the Bulldogs 9-4 to regain the
lead and cruised to a 25-16 blowout.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good team from a good
conference (Missouri Valley),â&#x20AC;? DuBose
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They sent four teams to the
NCAA (tournament) last year. RPI-wise
that will help us out a little bit. They
were good. I thought they were experienced and it was a good match for us
to finally get one and kind of start to
re-establish who we are.â&#x20AC;?
Drake pushed the Aggies to the
brink in the third set, but a timely
block from Sorensen and an attack
error from Bulldog junior outside hitter Bentley Mancini gave Utah State its
first victory of the season.
SUU 3, USU 2
The Aggies dropped a heart-breaking loss to the T-birds in their final
day of action at the Southern Utah
Tournament. The two teams traded
See STRUGGLES, Page 15

crossed a ball in from the left
side which actually found the
goal to tie the match at 1-1.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just say I kicked it and
it went into the net,â&#x20AC;? the 5-foot1 Hawaii native said with a
smile.
Flanary added another score
just minutes later in the 56th.
Defender Summer Tillotson
sent a long ball in from the
USU end of the pitch which
bounced and found the 5-foot-3
forward to score the eventual
game winner at 2-1.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was like a 50-50 ball,â&#x20AC;?
Flanary said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Me, the keeper
and the other defender all just
went up and somehow, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
know, I got above the two of
them and just got a flick on it
and luckily it went in.â&#x20AC;?

Utah State 2,
Colorado College 1
The Utah State soccer team
started off their two game road
trip with a 2-1 win over the
Colorado College Tigers Friday
afternoon. The win marks the
second time in the past three
years the Aggies have started
off the season with a 3-0-0
record.
USU held strong against a
tough CC team throughout the
entire 90 minutes, stopping 17
corner kicks and preventing 21
shots in the game.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;

...I got
above the
two of them
and just got
a flick on it
and luckily
it went in.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; senior forward Shantell
Flanary,
USU Soccer

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We beat a really good team,â&#x20AC;?
Cairns said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are really
impressive with their speed of
play.â&#x20AC;?
Utah State came out of
halftime with an offensive
mindset, scoring twice in three
minutes. The first Aggie goal
came in the 59th minute when
sophomore Jennifer Flynn put
the ball past the CC keeper
Hanna Berglund into the right
side of the net.
Flynnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal was the first
of her collegiate career and
was sparked by an assist from
Flanary. Her assist was the
12th of her career, putting her
three away from the all-time
record at Utah State.
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62nd, Flanary netted a goal to
put the Aggies up 2-0. The goal
gives her three on the season,
one in each game.
The Tigers kept the pressure
on in the second half, pushing
into the final minutes when
CCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s junior forward Brittney
Lyman booted the ball past
Merrill.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They made us work,â&#x20AC;?
Cairns said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They made us
work really, really hard.â&#x20AC;?
Utah Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one goal lead
prevailed as the time ran out,
ending the game 2-1.

Utah State 2,
Northern Colorado 1
Utah State won its fourth
straight game over the
Northern Colorado Bears, 2-1,
on Sunday. The victory secures
the best start ever for Utah
State soccer, winning each of
their first four matches.
Flanary came up big again

for the Aggies by netting both
Utah State goals and scoring in
her fourth consecutive game.
The first goal came just four
minutes into the match when
Flanary booted a pass from
Kendra Pemberton into the
back of the net to go up 1-0.
The next scoring opportunity for USU came an hour
later when Flanary scored from
17 yards out to give the Aggies
a two-goal lead.
Despite promising chances
in the second half, the Aggies
were unable to capitalize.
USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense held off the
Bears until the 80th minute
when junior midfielder JJ
Wykstra scored the only goal
for UNC.
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; meredith.kinney@aggiemail.
usu.edu
Assistant news editor Megan
Allen and sports editor Tavin
Stucki contributed to this report.

From Page 13

Wagner to tackle WAC

have to account for. Obviously
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be watching
him throughout the year. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
a very good football player.â&#x20AC;?
WAC Commissioner Karl
Benson put to rest all rumors
of USU joining the MWC,
calling the rumors â&#x20AC;&#x153;erroneous
reporting.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatever report you may
have read or seen yesterday
about something being imminent between the Mountain
West and Utah State,â&#x20AC;? Benson
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no idea where it
surfaced or how it surfaced.â&#x20AC;?
Benson also addressed
issues he is facing with keeping the WAC afloat as a competitive conference with the
nearing departures of Hawaii,
Fresno State and Nevada,
as well as the deal he nearly
worked out with BYU to join
the conference for all sports
except football.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will look forward
to continuing the WACMountain West rivalry and
on-the-field competition,â&#x20AC;?
Benson said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re proud that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
been able to get through this
period,â&#x20AC;? Benson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m
obviously disappointed that
that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t materialize, but
on the other hand, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here
again with a plan and will

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execute that plan that will
allow the WAC and our member institutions to be clearly
recognized nationally.â&#x20AC;?
Nevada, Hawaii and
Fresno will be spending 2011
as their last football season
in the WAC. Nevada and
Fresno will join the MWC in
all sports for the 2012-13 season, while Hawaii will join
the Mountain West for football only, and all other sports
will compete in the Big West
Conference, also beginning
in the 2012-13 season.
WAC play will begin on
Thursday, Sept. 1, at 6 p.m.
when Bowling Green travels
to Moscow to take on the
Vandals of the University of
Idaho.
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; tavin.stucki@aggiemail.usu.
edu

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StatesmanSports

USU Football improves front line
BY TAVIN STUCKI
sports editor

The trenches. The beef.
The big-uglies. Quarterback
bodyguards or quarterback
killers. Football coaches across
the country will tell you a
game is won or lost on the line.
The 2011 season at Utah State
University is no different. In
this, the first of a three-part
series previewing the Aggie
football team, take a look at the
men who make it all possible
for the skill guys to do their
job; the linemen.
Offensive Line
The Aggies return three
starters on the offensive line:
sophomore Tyler Larsen at center with seniors Funaki Assisi
on the left and Philip Gapelu
on the right at the guard positions. Larsen started his freshman year while both Assisi
and Gapelu have two years of
experience apiece.
Offensive line coach TJ
Woods said he will rely on the
experience of those three to
anchor the line.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our
strength right now on the
front,â&#x20AC;? Woods said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got
three guys whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got experience, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in the fire.
Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking forward to be
able to lean on those guys.â&#x20AC;?
The biggest question mark
for the O-line will be at the two
tackle positions. Oscar MolinaSanchez played half of the
season in 2010 and has won the
starting job at right tackle this
year, recently beating out junior
transfer Stetson Tenney. Tanner
Richins and sophomore Eric
Schultz continue to battle it out
for the left side, a spot vacated
by Spencer Johnson who graduated last year.
Larsen said the line is doing
much better than they were in
the spring.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The tackles are catching

UTAH STATEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LINE SQUARES off at Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scrimmage. Both the offensive and defensive
lines will be a key cog in deciding the Aggiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; success for the 2011 season. TODD JONES photo

up, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a really good sign,â&#x20AC;?
Larsen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our communication is a lot better. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re picking up defenses that we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
seen before. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just all-in-all
a lot smarter. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting
more and more experienced
out there.â&#x20AC;?
But what is the key to a successful offensive line this year?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cohesiveness, playing as
one, consistency,â&#x20AC;? Woods said,

â&#x20AC;&#x153;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our biggest goal right
now is to try and improve
being on the right assignment
and being consistent. We have
a lot of talent, we got a lot of
guys who can do a lot of good
things, but O-linemen got to do
it every day, every play. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
the bottom line.â&#x20AC;?
Defensive line
At the end of last season

head coach Gary Anderson
announced a change in the
defensive scheme from a 4-3 to
a 3-4, which means USU will
have one more linebacker on
the field, but one less lineman.
It is also an unfamiliar switch
for defensive line coach Frank
Maile, who said he was always
used to a 4-3.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we switched it was
new for me,â&#x20AC;? Maile said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now

that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone through it with
the spring and now through
camp, I really love what it has
to bring to the table â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the different dynamics that come out
of it. I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very exciting.â&#x20AC;?
The 3-4 defense usually
involves other players to put
pressure on the quarterback
in addition to the linemen and
those blitz packages come in
many different looks which
can confuse opposing offenses.
Junior defensive tackle Al
Lapuaho said the new look
gives USU a big advantage.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dynamic,â&#x20AC;? said the
transfer from Snow College.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have backers coming and
blitzing, we have safeties and
corners blitzing, the offense
wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing.â&#x20AC;?
Maile said the look brings
new flavor to the Western
Athletic Conference.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love it right now because
no one really does it in our
conference,â&#x20AC;? Maile said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
something a little different.â&#x20AC;?
As dynamic as the new
defense will be with all the
blitz options, one less lineman
means the line needs beefier
linemen, prompting USU to
recruit several juco transfers.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reason why we brought
them was because of who they
were at their junior colleges,â&#x20AC;?
Maile said.
The D-line positions will
be filled by Lapuaho at nose
tackle, flanked by junior
transfer Bojay Filimoeatu and
senior Quinn Garner. Expect
transfers Havea Lasike and
Evan Huahulu to also make an
impact for the Aggies.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the most talent
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen on a defensive front
in a long time,â&#x20AC;? Maile said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Together itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wrecking crew.
But again, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to get them
ready to be that wrecking crew
when the time comes.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; tavin.stucki@aggiemail.usu.
edu

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From Page 13

USU struggles,
inexperienced
sets before the T-birds pulled
out a 2-point victory in the
fifth set to take the match.
The Aggies narrowly took
the first set from the T-birds,
25-23, but the Southern Utah
rebounding on the next set
edged out Utah State, 26-24.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you are a little
inexperienced, things will
matter. Little things will matter,â&#x20AC;? DuBose said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought
Southern Utah was a little
more aggressive than we were
and I think that was the difference.â&#x20AC;?
The Aggies nearly pulled
out the fifth set and had a
great opportunity with the
score knotted up at 13 apiece,
but sophomore middle blocker
Nicole Gneiting-Theurer and
McArthur committed back-toback errors to give the T-birds
the victory.
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu
From Page 13

Andersen radio
show returns

Fun Day on Saturday, Aug.
27, at the Romney Stadium
Box Office, which is located
on the South end of Romney
Stadium.
After its season-opener at
Auburn on Saturday, Sept. 3,
Utah Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home opener is
on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 6 p.m.
(MDT), taking on in-state
foe Weber State, marking
the first time that USU and
WSU have squared off since
2001, and Utah State leads
the all-time series, 11-1. The
Aggie-Wildcat match-up will
have special meaning for
Andersen, who will be facing
his mentor, Weber State head
coach Ron McBride. Andersen
played for McBride at Utah in
1985-86.

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Monday, Aug. 29,2011

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Maybe you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know anything
summer on Facebook and Twitter.
about Aggie football. Maybe you do.
Well, I guess itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about that time.
Either way, the Statesman is here to help.
Let me introduce myself. My name is
No USU student can be a real fan withTavin Stucki. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the sports editor at the
out being informed and educated.
Statesman and the football beat writer.
From football and basketball, to handIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard more than a few people tell
ball and rodeo, the Statesman has the
me the sports page is the most read
most complete sports coverage of any
section in this paper, so if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true, I
newspaper in the world when it comes
should have the captive audience of just to USU Athletics. If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sport at
about everyone on campus right now.
USU, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of the Statesman sports

Tavin Stucki

page.
You probably havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been to any
Aggie baseball games. If you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
seen the sign with the schedule on it,
you probably donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know we have
a wrestling team. You might not know
USU has a lacrosse, rugby and hockey
team. Well, you probably knew we have
a hockey team. Or at least youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d better. To help you students know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
up and not look like a freshman, we are
here to give you the heads up on how
these teams are doing.
Have you ever wanted to see
your name and picture in the paper?
Remember what it was like in high
school when you had all the reporters
wanting to ask you about that 90-yard
pass to win the game in the fourth quarter or the buzzer-beating trey in the
state playoffs? This year weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to
give you a chance to relive the past like

Uncle Rico. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re covering a lot more
intramural sports than we have in the
past, so stack your teams up and get
ready to make a run at intramural champion.
Read the Statesman sports page, and
we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let you down. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m taking it
upon myself to help you not be that guy
who stands next to the water cooler and
looks like a tool when he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Robert
Wagner is great! Did you hear about
that 79-yard pass against BYE last year?â&#x20AC;?
Tavin Stucki is a sophomore majoring in
print journalism. He is the sports editor
for the Utah Statesman and writes USU
football stories for ksl.com. He is an
avid Aggie fan and has been since birth.
Follow him on twitter at @tavinstucki for
football updates.

California stuns Japan, claims Little League title
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; An
American flag draped around his shoulders, Braydon Salzman couldn't contain
his glee when he found California teammate Nick Pratto to give him a postgame
hug.
The boys from Huntington Beach are
headed home with a Little League World
Series championship.
Pratto singled in the winning run with
two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of sixth inning, and Salzman pitched
a complete-game three-hitter in a 2-1 victory Sunday over Hamamatsu City, Japan,
and the tournament title.
"USA! USA," yelled fans before Pratto's
single.
"I was just thinking. 'Oh God, Oh
God,' Before I was getting in the box," the
12-year-old Pratto said. "But once I got
into the box, I calmed myself by telling
myself to just look for a good pitch."
Pratto's clutch hit returned the World
Series title to the United States with the
type of victory even the big leaguers
dream about. A U.S. team has now won
six out of the last seven World Series, with
Japan's win last year the exception.
Pratto tossed his helmet into the air
after rounding first before his teammates
mobbed him in the infield. The teams

exchanged handshakes at the plate before
California's giddy players posed at the
mound with their new championship
banner.
"My team is physically smaller than
most of the teams. We didn't think we
would get to this stage," Japan manager
Akihiro Suzuki, who fought back tears
after the game, said through interpreter
Kotaro Omori. "All of the players did such
a wonderful job to get to this stage."
With runners on first and second, an
error by Japan shortstop Gaishi Iguchi
on what could have been an inningending double play loaded the bases for
California. After a force play at the plate,
Pratto smacked a solid liner to center off
reliever Kazuto Takakura that brought
pinch-runner Eric Anderson home with
the winning run.
Pratto did his father, manager Jeff
Pratto, proud. Nick Pratto said it was
great to have his father as his coach, "but
he kind of gets on my nerves sometimes."
It was a fitting end to a tense game
marked by excellent pitching and timely
defense.
Japan starter Shoto Totsuka struck out
five over 4 1-3 innings, giving up a homer
to right to California slugger Hagen
Danner.

First pitch was delayed more than
three hours after the outer bands of
Hurricane Irene brought more rain than
expected to the Williamsport area.
"The result was bad, but they really
tried their best," Suzuki said. "Today's
weather was difficult for us to get used
too. If the weather was like this in Japan,
we wouldn't have played."
The clouds finally started parting
midway through the game, and sunshine draped the complex by the time
the California players left the stadium to
cheers by friends and family.
Neither team could convert on several
chances to break open the pitcher's duel
earlier in the game.
With runners on first and second
in the top of the sixth, third baseman
Dylan Palmer blocked the bag from
sliding Japan runner Ken Igeta on a
bunt play to help get California get out
the inning.
California put runners on first
and second with two outs in the fifth,
but Takakura got a f lyout to end the
inning.
Playing right field in the second,
Takakura also made a running catch on
fly down the line to save an extra-base hit
with a runner on second.

NICK PRATTO, CENTER, CELEBRATES with teammates
after driving in the winning run with a walk-off single off Hamamatsu
City, Japan, pitcher Kazuto Takakura to win the Little League World
Series Championship baseball game. AP Photo

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Since Sept. 11, 2001, covering terrorism has
been a priority for the news industry, while
fighting terrorism has been a priority of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Newseum has melded the two pursuits
in a special exhibit called â&#x20AC;&#x153;War on Terror:
The FBIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Focus.â&#x20AC;? The new display, which
opens Sept. 2, fits neatly into an ongoing
exhibition, â&#x20AC;&#x153;G-Men and Journalists: Top News
Stories of the FBIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Century.â&#x20AC;?
Fragments of the engines of United Flight
175 recall the power of the terroristsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; weapons.
One engine part is 1,500 pounds, the other
800 pounds. Found just blocks from the World
Trade Center towers and on loan from the FBI,
the engine parts will be suspended from the

ceiling.
Another item is Ruth McCourtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s red wallet,
twisted and caked with mud. She was on Flight
175 taking her 4-year-old daughter, Juliana,
to Disneyland. The FBI found the wallet in a
Staten Island, N.Y., landfill.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to show things in the state
in which they were found,â&#x20AC;? said Carrie
Christoffersen, the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curator of collections. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The purpose is to help demonstrate the
range of conditions that these pieces have come
through. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to make them look
lovely again. The point is the horrible circumstances.â&#x20AC;?
The FBI has lent the museum the rigged
hiking boots of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;shoe bomber.â&#x20AC;? On a
flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001,
Richard Reid tried to light up the explosives
hidden in his heavy black shoes. One of the

â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Our Idiot Brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: An
Easygoing Misfire
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Idiot Brotherâ&#x20AC;? turns
out to be mis-titled. It should
be called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Brother We
Treat Like an Idiot,â&#x20AC;? and
that goes as much for the
filmmakers as the dysfunctional family at the core of
this easygoing misfire. Paul
Rudd plays Ned Rochlin, a
perpetually blissed-out biodynamic farmer who in the
filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first scene sells pot to
a police officer. When he
gets out of jail, he embarks
on a serial-crash with his
three sisters, upending their
lives with his anarchic honesty and unbridled naivete.
Peeking out from a curtain of shaggy hair and a
beard, Rudd invests Ned
with every ounce of the
effusive, natural warmth that
has become his trademark.
And like so many movies in
his career, he makes â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our
Idiot Brotherâ&#x20AC;? much more
tolerable than it deserves to
be.
Screenwriters Evgenia
Peretz and David Schisgall
play up Nedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s innocence
by making his sisters thoroughly unappealing: Emily
Mortimer plays a dowdy,
sad-sack hausfrau married

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Idiot
Brotherâ&#x20AC;?
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to a pompous documentarian (played with withering
contempt by Steve Coogan);
Elizabeth Banks flails in a misguided brunet pageboy as a
ruthless Vanity Fair reporter;
and Zooey Deschanel lends
spaced-out self-absorption
to a lesbian tempted by a
similarly navel-gazing male
artist.
Director Jesse Peretz
happens to be the screenwriterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother, but surely
heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no idiot. Still, one wonders whose idea it was that
Deschanelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partner - played
by Rashida Jones - would
take her sartorial style points
from Urkel. Or whether
the scene-stealing Kathryn
Hahn, as Nedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s witchy hippie
ex-girlfriend, had to be such
a witch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Idiot Brotherâ&#x20AC;?

holds Ned up as a paragon
of decency and trust, to the
point where in one scene,
he cheerfully asks a guy on
the subway to hold a wad
of cash - and the man does,
gobsmacked. As Ned himself says, if you give people
the benefit of the doubt,
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll live up to it. But the
filmmakers are so intent on
demonizing everyone else
in Nedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life that it suggests
they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe their own
tag line.
There are times when
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Idiot Brotherâ&#x20AC;? possesses a loping, genial
sweetness. But it lacks conviction, and it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold
a beeswax candle to such
similarly themed films as
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You Can Count on Meâ&#x20AC;?
and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mommaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Man.â&#x20AC;? Rudd
has created a genuinely
engaging character in the
Candide-like Ned, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our
Idiot Brotherâ&#x20AC;? gives him very
little garden to cultivate.
R. Contains sexual content including nudity, and
for profanity throughout. 96
minutes.
By Ann Hornaday
(c) 2011, The Washington
Post

â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Be Afraid of the Darkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;:
Cellar! Beware!! Cliche coming!

Augmented by just enough CGI to bring
its icky gremlins to life, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Be Afraid of
the Darkâ&#x20AC;? feels retro in all the right ways;
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bump-in-the-night tale that, if not for
the occasional glimpse of a cellphone or
reference to Adderall, could have been told
decades ago.cActually, it was. Screenwriters
Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins
adapted the script from a 1973 TV movie
of the same name. The changes they made
pull the tale further back, though, into the
realm of fable - especially their decision to
change the protagonist from an adult to a
little girl: Sally (Bailee Madison, convincingly
apprehensive and sullen) has been sent by
her preoccupied mother to live with her
father and his new girlfriend (Guy Pearce
and Katie Holmes) in the grand old mansion
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re renovating. (Adults being mainly an
obstacle in this sort of tale, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not inappropriate that Pearce and Holmes both offer
thin performances.)
Sally doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be there but canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
resist exploring. Soon she discovers a hidden
basement - unsafe for little girls, an aging
caretaker warns knowingly - whose rusty,
bolted-up ash pit speaks to her. Scratchy,
faint voices whisper to Sally, offering friendship. When her first encounter is cut short,
we hear them whisper among themselves:
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll come back. They always do . . .â&#x20AC;?
Followers of del Toroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work will see
reminders of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Panâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Labyrinthâ&#x20AC;? here - little
girl, strange environs, enticing and perhaps
magical creatures known only to her - but
the storyteller is writing for another director,
first-timer Troy Nixey, and keeps the action
rooted in the real world. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll save the fantastic recesses of his personal mythology
for his own films, though he does eventu-

ally work old folk tales into â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dark,â&#x20AC;? in thoroughly creepy ways best left for the viewer
to discover.
Nixey nails the look and vibe of the tale,
starting with a chilling prologue in which
the houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 19th-century inhabitants do horrible things to one another. In the presentday story, scares build steadily as Nixeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
camera creeps through heavy shadows that
obscure the source of ratlike skittering noises. Identifying strongly with Sally, the movie
is seduced by the monstersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voices - when
theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re speaking to her, the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surroundsound mix makes them seem to be hiding all
around us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inevitable that she will set the
things free and that her fascination will soon
turn to dread.
After milking the beastiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first few
appearances for big shocks, Nixey shows
us perhaps a bit too much of them; as the
film moves into full-scale action mode, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
slightly less satisfying than its creepy buildup
was. (And, perhaps intentionally, it relies on
a couple of shameless bits of illogic.)
Even its imperfect moments, though,
benefit from a literary and artistic richness most contemporary spook stories canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
muster. It would be a shame if side projects
like this slowed del Toroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pace in making
films of his own, like the deeply personal
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Panâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Labyrinth,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cronos,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Backbone.â&#x20AC;? But the more movies he can put
his stamp on, the richer horror cinema will
be.
. By John DeFore
Special to The Washington Post DeFore is a
freelance critic.
R. Contains mildly gory violence and terror. 99 minutes.

TVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sept. 11 anniversary:
The five best shows to watch
BY HANK STUEVER
(c) 2011, The Washington Post

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nova: Engineering Ground Zeroâ&#x20AC;?
(one hour) airs Sept. 7 at 9 p.m. on PBS.
--â&#x20AC;&#x153;9/11: The Days Afterâ&#x20AC;?
(two hours) airs Sept. 9 at 9 p.m. on
History.
--â&#x20AC;&#x153;Voices From Inside the Towersâ&#x20AC;?
(two hours) airs Sept. 10 at 9 p.m. on
History.
Check local listings for time, channel

shoes is open
to show how
the explosives
were inserted
into the soles.
A flight attendant smelled
the match
and
grabbed
the boot
while the
passengers
restrained
Reid with their
belts. The belts
are also on display.
The journalism
story isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forgotten in
the exhibit. John Miller,
the
former ABC News reporter who was the last
Western reporter to interview Osama bin
Laden before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, donated several items to â&#x20AC;&#x153;War on Terror.â&#x20AC;? The beige
tunic, salwar kameez and pants he wore to the
interview at the hideout in Afghanistan are displayed, along with a small camera. Two films

detail Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience.
The new material includes two Wall
Street lampposts, a sign that says
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;pushâ&#x20AC;? from a door at the World
Trade Center, and rakes,
shovels and buckets used
to sort through the
debris collected at the
Fresh Kills landfill in
Staten Island. Also
displayed are several
cellphones and pagers
that were found.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They kept
going off for days after,â&#x20AC;?
Christoffersen said.
Since it opened in April
2008, the Newseum has had a permanent exhibition on Sept. 11. It focuses
on the news industry, journalists and the challenges of that day. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;9/11 Galleryâ&#x20AC;? includes
127 newspaper fronts from the next day and a
31-foot section of the broadcast antenna from
the World Trade Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North Tower. Other
exhibits include a limestone cornice piece
from the Pentagon and part of the fuselage
from United Flight 93, which went down near
Shanksville, Pa.

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Water we fighting for?

Catherine Meidell

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number of things changed on campus
while we were away for the summer,
but one thing seems to stand out more
than others. Unfamiliar contraptions were
built into the Taggart Student Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drinking fountains â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a strange invention that had us
puzzled when we first discovered it.
Looking more closely at it, we noticed the
outline of a water bottle and a small spout
where we assumed water was dispensed. We
brought our water bottles to campus for the
first time in months, simply to test the device.
Though this water is the same water we
once drank from the fountain, it tasted much
sweeter. Thank you, water gods. It is now possible to fill water bottles up twice as fast, and
we are doing it in style.
Okay, so we know the real reason for these
dispensers revolves around encouraging students to stop buying water bottles, which is
a worthy cause. Of course, buying water can
become expensive, and we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have that
kind of cash lying around. It promotes ecofriendly behavior while keeping our wallets
happy. The dispenser allows the entire water
bottle to fill, while the water fountain only
allows half the bottle to fill until the tilt of the
bottle causes the water to flow back out of
the top.
There has been talk of taking this water
bottle movement even further, and it toes
the line. We are all in favor of giving students
the option to decide whether or not saving
the environment is on their priority list. Give
students the option, and we believe they will
more often than not make good decisions.
Banning the sale of water bottles on campus
completely, simply, does not make sense.
Perhaps, we are being stubborn, but when
our options are whittled down to one option,
we feel rather confined. What will happen to
the students who care less about preservation? When someone passes out on the sidewalk, we will know why. Dehydration.
It comes down to this: donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell students
what they can and cannot do. Prompt them
to do the right thing. Make saving the earth
convenient. This is why it was wise to install
more efficient water dispensers that prompt
students to carry water bottles. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not take
it to the extreme. Thank you for the go-green
enthusiasm, but at the same time, no thank
you.

USU administration a
step above the rest
Welcome home Aggies.
Logan has missed you. We
are going to have a great
year together. This summer I realized some great
things about our institution.
As part of my role, I have
the opportunity to sit on
the executive board of the
Utah Student Association.
This board is made up of
the student body presidents
from all the institutions of
higher education across the
state. As I listened to their
issues, I have been grateful for the great executive
team here at Utah State
University, led by President
Stan Albrecht.
As I have represented the
students on many different
councils and committees, I
have been amazed by their
focus on student success
that comes from each of
our leaders. Many universities throughout the nation
are putting a lot of focus
on faculty research while
undergraduates are stuck
being taught by graduate
students. However, here at
USU the needs of the students drive everything that
happens. Our administration really does have our
best interests in mind.
With the unique opportunity of possessing a great
administration,
student
involvement is important.
We cannot pass up the

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opportunity to shape our
college experience into
something great. Each year
more and more students finish college with some sort
of degree placing them in
an increasingly competitive
job market. In 2010 there
were 3.3 million degrees
awarded by public and private institutions. With these
kinds of numbers coming
out of colleges, and the
number of jobs available
dropping every year, a person needs more than just a
completed college degree
to keep up with the competition. The difference
between the person who
gets the job and the person
who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t is now defined
by how well one applicant
has differentiated him or
herself from the others. The
time to start that differentiation is now.
Those students who
stand apart from the competition are students who
took the initiative to not
only get through college,

ForumLetters
Reduce number
of feral cats
To the editor:
Feral and homeless cat
populations need to be
reduced out of concern
for birds and other wildlife
and out of a compassionate
desire to reduce suffering.
Trap-neuter-return (TNR)
is a method of reducing the
number of feral cats by neutering breeding colonies.
TNR is not always appropriate, for example, where
endangered species need to
be protected from cat predation, but TNR is proving
effective in many situations
including on university campuses.
On the USU campus TNR
has reduced the numbers
of cats near the Junction.
The program was initiated
in 2003-04 with the trap-

ping and neutering of about
22 cats by the USU Pre-Vet
Club. From then until the
present, the colony has been
managed by volunteers organized by Aggie Cats. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m told
there are currently four cats
in the Junction Colony.
Now, apparently USU
plans to attempt to relocate
those four Junction Colony
cats. If this neutered colony is removed, cats that are
not neutered are likely to
become re-established in the
area and feral cat numbers
will again increase. In 2004
it was illegal to feed cats on
USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus, but this could
not be enforced and the cat
population was increasing.
The conditions that led to a
cat population problem in
2004 are still present at the
Junction. The area remains
attractive to cats, and people
still feel compelled to feed
cats in the absence of a managed program.

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It is both expensive and
risky to relocate feral colonies. Moving the Junction
cats will be costly and puts
them in danger. Also, the
Junction cats have provided a rodent-control service
around the Junction. If the
Junction cats are creating
problems, the problems
need to be clearly identified and potential solutions
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including but not limited
to relocation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; evaluated. To
my knowledge, a basic decision-making process has not
taken place.
The state of Utah has
passed legislation encouraging TNR in appropriate
situations. USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relocation
of a successful TNR colony
should not take place without an investigation and
opportunity for alternative
solutions to be proposed.
Molly Hysall

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hear some chatter
For a large fraction of
students at USU, the woes
and triumphs of dating are
always simmering in their
minds. It seems as though
our success as individuals
partially revolves around
our success in capturing
the attention of members
of the opposite sex.
I assume this has a lot to
do with why the column written by Richard Orcutt that ran
in the Statesman last semester prompted the most discussion â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it focused on this very
subject: dating. Perhaps our
readership will skyrocket if we
switched up the game a bit
and compiled a newspaper
that resembles Teen Vogue
and Entertainment Weekly. In
fact I know Statesman content, whether it is in print or
on the web, would be tweeted more often if â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wildâ&#x20AC;? Bill
Sproatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest breakup was
spattered across the top of
the front page. If this is what
you are interested in, tough
luck. I advise you to download some newsworthy applications on your iPhone and
start worrying a tad more

Taking
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Catherine Meidell
about the bigger picture.
In case you were not
aware, you are now paying a sum of 25 cents per
credit hour in your student
fees â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which total just over
$400 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so the sustainability
council can talk about ways
in which USU can become
more ecofriendly. Hopefully
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not all talk. This fee may
not seem like a big to-do and
could most likely be found
lurking in hidden corners of
studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cars. This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the
point. Which organizations
will ask students to increase
their enrollment fees next?
If the Sustainability council
can do it, shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t everyone
else? Are they more important, or did they simply just
have the courage to ask?
What are we willing to pay

for, and what makes those
things more important? The
truth is very few students ask
themselves these questions.
Maybe I need to face the
facts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; students just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
care.
However, I refuse to
believe this. I have met too
many intelligent young people attending this institution.
These people have opinions
about university policies and
regulations but would rather
listen to themselves groan
than groan in a public forum.
I understand the therapy of
talking to oneself, but that
does not make it productive.
If I could challenge every
student to do one thing this
year, aside from surviving
group projects, it would be to
become a proactive student.
Find out what ASUSU executive council is talking about.
Find out how they are spending your money. Without your
feedback they will continue
to make decisions based on
what they believe you want
this university to be, rather

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than what you, yourselves,
want it to be.
Get your jaw moving.
Submit letters through the
Statesman website, comment on the articles published about campus issues,
download the ASUSU and
Statesman iPhone apps
and attend ASUSU executive council meetings. The
Statesman will initiate weekly polls on its website and
around campus, searching
for your opinions. My hope
is that you invest a few minutes each day informing yourself on the decisions that are
being made around you, and
in many instances, for you.
Be part of that decision process. If you decide to remain
uninvolved quit whining when
things donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go your way.
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about time you
start caring, and I am positive

every Statesman editor has
attempted to convey this message in one way or another. I
can only hope a few studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
wandering eyes fall on this
page while searching for the
crossword puzzle. With the
uncertain economy, unspeakable amount of national debt,
the upcoming U.S. presidential primaries, our loved ones
fighting wars overseas and
a state legislature that puts
education on the back burner, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pivotal time to use
our First Amendment rights.
Americans fought for years to
ultimately attain the freedom
of speech, and what a waste
it would be if we did not take
advantage of it.
Catherine Meidell is the
editor in chief of The Utah
Statesman. Comments can
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dents never choose to take
advantage of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available.
Inside ASUSU there are hundreds of ways to get involved
and begin to get more from
college. Each officer has a
council that organizes all
kinds of events; each college
has a senator that focuses on
the organizations in that individual college; and there is
also a large number of clubs
and organizations. By getting
involved with these organizations, students begin to slowly
move their resumĂŠ from a
giant pile of similar resumĂŠs,
to a very small pile of resumĂŠs
of students who have chosen
to take initiative and get more
from college.
Opportunities to get more
from college continue with
tapping into USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s network of
professionals, getting involved
with undergraduate research,

participating in campus recreation activities and so on.
Even if a student does not
have a leadership role, simply learning to communicate
effectively with a variety of
people can give an edge.
As student officers we are
here to serve you by doing
our best to remove barriers
that would keep you from
getting more out of your college experience. This year we
are going to do all we can to
make that happen. Please let
me know if there is anything
you would like to see happen
or see removed. We really do
want your thoughts. Thank
you, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go Aggies.â&#x20AC;?
Erik Mikkelsen is the ASUSU
student body president.
The ASUSU View runs every
Monday. Comments can be
sent to statesmaneditor@
aggiemail.usu.edu.